As more countries begin to take actions against the Syrian government, it will be forced to acquiesce to global pressure and end its violence against the rebels. The death toll in the Syrian civil war has reached upwards of 20,000 even as global sanctions continue to pour on Syria and President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey is only the latest country to take action against Syria and, certainly, will not be the last. If Syria continues to ignore global pressure to end its violence, then military action from outside its borders may be the only resolution to end the internal violence within Syria.

Dan Warhola is a 3L at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Executive Editor of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy.